As text becomes more complicated in the middle years and high school, and as the demands for learning from text (particularly information texts) increase, students must become more sophisticated in both the range and the flexibility of their reading comprehension strategies to maintain or accelerate their level of reading proficiency (Duke & Pearson, 2002, in Academic Literacy Instruction for Adolescents, 2007,p.9).
Instruction in reading comprehension strategies is helpful for all students, particularly for students with learning difficulties (Gatjria, Jitendra, Sood & Sacks, 2007, 2011; Vaughn, Gersten & Chard, 2000).